All Videos — March 23, 2011

Want to Be an Innovator? Drop Out of College!

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Innovation requires risk and sacrifice, which may be very hard to do if you have an enormous debt burden to repay.

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Union soldiers in blue uniforms escort prisoners past a burning building with a large hole in the wall while smoke and flames rise, during the American Civil War.

The rise and fall of John Wilkes Booth: America’s first celebrity assassin

Before becoming America’s most infamous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was a magnetic actor who was beloved by audiences and courted by critics.

Starts With A Bang

Why is “F = ma” still the most important equation in physics?

From high school through the professional ranks, physicists still take incredible lessons away from Newton’s second law.

A colorful, abstract scientific illustration with a central glowing sphere, circular patterns, and various lines and circles suggesting quantum connections or uncertainty data points, on a dark background with blue accents.

Starts With A Bang

The single most amazing fact about the Universe

No matter what it is that we discover about reality, the fact that reality itself can be understood remains the most amazing fact of all.

A pyramid stands in a desert with three people in front, evoking experimental archeology; a modern McDonald's restaurant is visible in the background on the right.

Books

Science meets sweat: How experimental archaeology brings history to life

In “Dinner with King Tut,” Sam Kean examines how a burgeoning field is recreating ancient tasks to uncover historical truths.

Starts With A Bang

LIGO’s heaviest black hole demands next-generation science

With over 300 high-significance gravitational wave detections, we now have a huge unsolved puzzle. Will we invest in finding the solution?

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